E. coli outbreak in Oklahoma kills 1, sickens 200 September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday. | |
Got Gout? Duke Leads Study of New Treatment September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new drug designed to normalize levels of uric acid in the blood appears to be safe and tolerable and may help patients with the painful arthritic condition known as gout better cope with their disease, ... | |
Innate immune system targets asthma-linked fungus for destruction September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new study shows that the innate immune system of humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis and bronchial asthma. Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics ... | |
New sensory devices will aid Parkinson's and stroke patients September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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People who have suffered a stroke or who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, could benefit from new research at Queen's University Belfast. | |
Court: US can block mad cow testing August 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. | |
87 salmonella cases reported across Quebec August 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec. | |
Potential remedy for the 'mental fog' in cancer patients 16 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, ... | |
Defibrillators save lives, don't diminish quality of life 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of life, say researchers ... | |
Scientists uncover Ebola cell-invasion strategy September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells — a critical step to finding a way to treat the deadly disease ... | |
Cholesterol drugs lower risk of stroke for elderly too September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Elderly people who take a cholesterol drug after a stroke or mini-stroke lower their risk of having another stroke just as much as younger people in the same situation, according to research published in the September 3, ... | |
Scientists use remote satellite imaging to predict outbreaks of infectious disease September 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Scientists in the USA have established a way to predict outbreaks of cholera, making it easier to control. This finding could provide a model to predict and potentially control outbreaks of other important infectious diseases. | |
Whooping cough outbreak at Pittsburgh vets clinic September 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Medical officials in Pittsburgh say staff members and some patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital are getting preventive treatment for whooping cough after an outbreak was traced to several workers at an outpatient ... | |
Study shows heavy snoring is an independent risk factor for carotid atherosclerosis September 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that objectively measured heavy snoring is an independent risk factor for early carotid atherosclerosis, which may progress to be associated with stroke. | |
'Superbug' breast infections controllable in nursing mothers, researchers find August 31, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Many nursing mothers who have been hospitalized for breast abscesses are afflicted with the "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, but according to new research by UT Southwestern Medical ... | |
Heavy breathing -- an obscure link in asthma and obesity August 29, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
There is a strong link between obesity and asthma and as the prevalence of both conditions has been increasing steadily, epidemiologists have speculated that there is an underlying condition that connects the two. But one ... | |
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